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FedEx reported Thursday that it shipped 1,000,000 more packages than expected on Monday — which it anticipates will be its peak shipping day this holiday. The firm reported that this year’s busiest day is up 17% from its busiest day last year.
FedEx CEO, Fred Smith further observed that their business has now observed a significant [...]

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Strong demand for communications equipment, machinery and fabricated metal led an upbeat durable goods report for April. Overall orders jumped by 1.9%.
Most analysts were wrong and had expected only a rise of 0.4%.
The bounce in new orders was broad but was led by communication equipment which alone was up 6.9 percent. Significant new [...]

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Technology keeps thrusting forward at an ever increasing rate as the Information Age transforms the world at a rapid pace.  Business is happening at the speed of thought as companies are beginning to morph into digital entities in a physical world.  Fortunes have already been made in supply chain management and product distribution as evidenced [...]

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